Farm-gate.



No. 699,717. Patented Apr.. 29, 1902. M. H. LAmMoRE.

FARM GATE. (Applicatioxa led Jnn. 16, 1.902.)

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MILES II. LARIMORE, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS LARIMORE, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

FARM-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,717, dated April 29, 1902.

Application filed January 16, 1902. Serial No. 89,949. (N0 model-5 To all whom it may @Wwf/Wifi looking toward the outer face thereof, with Be it known that I, MILES H. LARIMORE, a the gate-body shown in the uppermost limit citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Fort of its vertical adjustment in dotted outline. Wayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of" Fig. 2 is a view in velevation. of the inner face 55 5 Indiana, have invented certain new and useof the gata/showing the limit of its tilted adful Improvements in Farm-Gatesgvand I do justment and also showing the relative arhereby declare that the following is a full, rangement ofthe pivoted hanger-block, the clear, and exact description of the invention, gate-body slot, and the key by which the gate which will enable others skilled in the art to is secured in either an elevated or a tilted 6o 1o which it appertains to make and use the same, position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my 'reference being had to the accompanying gate swung partly open and showing the reladrawings, which form part of this speciicative arrangement of the operative parts. Fig.

tion. 11 is a detail of the pivoted block and pivot- My present invention relates to improvepin in position, with adjacent coacting parts 5 i 5 ments in farm-gates. broken away in part. Fig. 5 is a detail of the The object of my present invention is to gravity-latch, and Fig. 6 is a detail side view provide a cheap, simple, efficient, and conof the means for adjusting the hanger. venient farm-gate having but few operative The upright hanger from which the gateparts and but small liability of getting out of body is suspended consists of a vertical part 7o zo repair and having a convenient vertical ad- 1, Whose lower end is pivoted on any proper justment, as well as both a swinging and a pedestal or short ground-post 2 by means of tilting movement, thereby adapting it for use a pintle 3 and whose upperend has a pintle in interior fences where a temporary separa- 4 loosely mounted in an elongated slot 5 in tion of different-sized stock is desired and for the inner end of the plate'6,l1"ig. 6, having 75 25 swinging over snow-drifts and like obstrucits outer end rigidly Secur'e'd'to the post 7, a

tions. horizontal top piece 8, and an oblique brace My improved gate consists of three princi- 9, which is rigidly connected to the piece 8 pal operative parts or features-viz., a swingnear its free end by the vertical braces 10. ing hanger-frame having a pivoted block in In and between the free ends of the parts 8 8o 3o its free end provided with ahorizontal pin on and 9 is rotatably mounted a vertically-arwhich the gate-frame is pivotally suspended ranged block 11, having suitable pintles in and having a novel means for obviating all the ends thereof and provided with a pivottendency toward sagging and provided with pin 12, passing through the same midway of a new means for securing at pleasure a perits ends, which has upon* one end thereof a 85 3 5 feet vertical adjustment thereof, a gate frame proper thumb-nut 13 and a washer 13. The or body having an elongated central vertical hanger-frame is further strengthened by a slot for the hanger pivot-pin on which the small triangular brace S', fixed in adjacent gate-frame is suspended, thereby4 adapting it mortises in the part 1 and the top piece 8,

for both a vertical and a tilted adjustment, Fig. 2. 9o 4o and an improved gravity-latch for securing Theigate-frame consists of asuitable numthe gate in a locked position. ber of horizontal boards or strips 14, rigidly The principal novel features of myimprovesecured in parallel arrangement and vertical ment are the means for securing the rigidity alinement by means of cross-pieces 15 at or and the vertical adjustment of the hanger near the ends thereof and cross-pieces 16 mid- 9 5 45 and the means for securing to the gate-frame way the ends thereof. These cross-pieces are a vertical, tilting, and swinging movement. each in duplicate and in opposite relation,

Similar reference-numerals indicate like one upon each side of the gate. The cenparts throughout the several views of the tral cross-pieces 16 have extended coincident drawings, in whichlongitudinal slots 17 near the middle of their l1o:

.5o Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my imlength, in which the said pivot-pin 12 is loosely proved gate in its normal position when closed arranged.

To the upper portion of the cross-piece 16, upon the outer face ofthe gate, Figs. 1 and 4, is fixed a strengthening-strip 18, which is provided with a longitudinal slot coincident with the said slots 17. A small metal pin or key 19 is removably mounted in a suitable perforation 20 in the piece 18, which passes through the slots 17 near the lower end thereof. This pin 19 normally rests in the perforation 20, with the pivot-pin 12 normally resting in the upper end of the slot 17; Vbut When it is desired to secure the gate-body in either an elevated position, as shown in dotted outline in Fig. 1, or in the tilted position shown in Fig. 2 the pin is removed, the gate raised until the pin 12 rests in the lower end of the slot 17, and the pin 19 is then replaced in position and directly above the pin 12, thereby loosely securing the gate in such elevated position.

The hanger 1 is provided at suitable points and upon opposite sides thereof with the usual hooks 21, adapted to form a holding engagement with the adjacent end of the gateina Well-understood manner.

The latch-post 22 is provided with the usual guide-strip 23, having its opposite ends beveled, as usual.

Directly above the protruding ends of the `improved gate is obvious and briefly stated is as follows: When the gate is closed, it is supported at its center by the pin 12, which then rests in the upper end ofthe slotl', as shown in Fig. 4, and at its ends by the hook 21 and the guide 23, respectively. When it is desired to place the gate so that only small stock, as pigs, can pass beneath the same, the operator disengages the gatefrom the latch, removes pin 19, raises the gate until the pin 12 rests in the lower end of the slot 17, and then replaces pin 19 directly above the pin 12. The gate can now be freely tilted on its pivot 12 in either direction, as is often desirable in opening the gate over snow-drifts and the like, or it can be temporarily secured in a tilted position, Fig. 2, for the separation of stock, as sheep or hogs, from cattle or v horses.

When the gate is mounted on the supporting hanger-frame in its normal position, it can be swung freely in either direction and opened from or closed upon either side of the latch-post with equal facility. It is thus obvious that as the gate is pivotally supported on the block 11, which in turn is pivoted in the hanger, it has a perfect freedom'of movement in every possible direction withoutfthe least ported at both ends as well as at the center,

as beforedescribed.

To dismount the gate from the hanger, it is only necessary to remove the thumb-nut 13 and thewasher 13', when the gate can readily be slipped 0E of the pin 12.

When it is desired to adjust the hanger, las when out of plumb, either by improper setting up or other cause, it can readily be done by inserting' the pi-n 26 in the slot 5 in the plate 6 upon either one side or the other of the pintle 4.

Changesin theform, proportion, andthe minor detailsvof construction maybe resorted to without departing fromthe.l principle yor sacrificing anyof the advantagesof this in` vention.

Having'thus described my invention-and the manner of operating the -same,what I desire 'to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination in a farm-gate of a piv oted hanger; a block pivotally mounted in IOC means for adjusting the said hanger when out of plumb as described; an upright block pivotally mounted in the free end of said hanger; a horizontal pivot-pin for the gate-body arranged in the said block midway of its ends; and a gate-body having a vertical slot midway of its ends by means of which'it is pivotally mounted on the said pin, and is thereby adapted for both a vertical adjustment and a tilting movement thereon.

3. The combination in a gate of a pivoted hanger; a block pivotally mounted in the free end of said hanger; a horizontal pivot-pin for the gate-body passing through said block; a gate-body having a vertical slot midway of its ends, and adapted to receive the said pin, whereby the said gate is pivotally supported on the said pin and is adapted for both a ver` IIO tical adjustment and a tilting movement 

